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AGNI PURANAM.

adore the great gooddess of prosperity Sree, Garuda, the
spiritual guide, Indra and other deities, With the mantram
Aum and Hrim one should. adore the form and seat of
Saraswati (23). Then Hrit, Lakshoai, Medha, KalS, Tusti,
Pushti, Gouri, PrabhSvati, Durg§, Gana, Guru and Kshetrapa
should be worshipped (24). Thetf-^he should say, " Gam,
salutation unto the Lord of Ganas, Hrim unto Gouri, Shrim
unto Sri, Shrim unto Twarita, Sou onto Tripura" (25). All
the man trams should be preceded by Pranava (Om) added
Vindu to it, either while offering adorations or performing
Japa (26). Celebrating a Ho ma with sessamum seed and
clarified butter he who reads these mantrams of adoration,
yeilding religious profit, desire, worldly profit and salvation,
repairs to heaven after having enjoyed all the objects of
desire (27)

CHAPTER XXIL

IARADA said:—I will now describe the mode of bathing
[necessary before the performance of] any religious rite.
Meditating on the man-lion form one should take up a clod
01 earth. And dividing it into two pieces he should with
rate bathe bb Eaisd (l). Immersing himself in water, rinsing
his iiKMJtb, and arranging his hairs, he should, protected by
tfce lion, perfonB the dae rite of bathiqg preceeded by
Pranayama* (2). Meditating on Hari in his heart with the
mantras* consistiag of eight fetters be sboold divide the

* A Yogic process of the so&xessxm of li